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Adding testing to Ask‐Elle: An Interactive Functional Programming Tutor: in this demonstration ASK‐ELLE is introduced: a Haskell tutor. ASK‐ELLE supports the incremental development of Haskell programs. ASK‐ELLE checks that a student follows one of the model solutions provided by a teacher.

Computer science education often faces problems related to passive teaching and curricular constraints. These problems distort the students’ perception of computer science and thus lead to lack of interest in the curriculum and in related professions. The main goals of the project reported in this paper are (1) to excite and motivate students in computer science through creative activities, and (2) to introduce the idea of becoming creators of digital media through programming instead of remaining passive learners.

In this paper / presentation the presenters introduced Guided Exploration as an inductive teaching approach. It is based on Minimalism and makes use of the pattern format. Guided Exploration addresses a couple of problems when teaching tool‐related concepts and techniques, like how to address different student learning styles and how to address the issue that most students do not read the provided material as expected before starting to work. It also puts the focus on the concepts to be learned.

In this article / presentation, we proposed a two‐perspective visualization approach to show how the visualization power can be utilized in explaining some computer science concepts during the lecture. Mainly, explaining an abstract concept in theoretical computer science requires a lot of imagination of the entities relations in the underlying algorithm or in the underlying data flow. Lecturers need the help of some of visualization techniques in conveying these complex concepts.

We discuss adult learning in the domain of information technology. Our focus is on adult distance learning, with examples for ICT design. We show how adult learning in this case differs from traditional school learning and how teaching goals may differ from learning goals. In order to develop generic understanding of how to design for adult learning we choose action research as technique for our empirical investigation and growing understanding.

Business rules are an important concept in today’s business operations. Students in a Business Management and IT curriculum must learn the basics of business rules by capturing and describing the declarative rules that apply in a restricted business context. Learning to specify rules in exact detail is hampered by the lack of rule languages suited for instructional purposes. Natural language or semi‐formal languages are too versatile and imprecise, whereas most formal languages presuppose advanced knowledge of mathematics and set theory.

Tijdens deze presentatie kwamen de aanwezigen meer te weten over het eerste afgeronde veldonderzoek bij het Schakel‐ en Meldcentrum van ProRail. Het doel van het promotieonderzoek van Lambert Zaad is het vergroten van de communicatie‐ondersteunende rol van ICT‐systemen in coördinatiecentra.

De presentatie en het artikel beschrijven het toepassen van datagerichte informatiesysteemtechnologieën op het doceren van cursussen over dezelfde technologieën. De cursussen van de Open Universiteit, Ontwikkelpracticum en Semantic Web fungeren als casussen.

In de cursus Webcultuur van de Open Universiteit die is bedoeld voor studenten Informatica en Informatiekunde (maar ook voor studenten met een achtergrond die buiten de ICT ligt), staan de begrippen web, cultuur, communicatie en webontwerp centraal. De cursus biedt zowel theoretische als meer praktisch georiënteerde onderdelen.

Het jaar 2012 is het jaar van de Open Online Course (MOOC). Wat is een MOOC? Een MOOC is een vorm van open onderwijs, en de letters staan voor:
Massive veel deelnemers (> getal van Dunbar)
Open vrije toegang
Online via internet
Course eenheid van aanbod is een cursus (5‐10 weken doorlooptijd)